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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by ThoniaSlim(f): 7:30pm On May 06, 2015
Hope Waddel my father's alma mater! Great men are made there! kiss
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nobody: 7:32pm On May 06, 2015
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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by dennistar(m): 7:33pm On May 06, 2015
ThoniaSlim:
Hope Waddel my father's alma mater! Great men are made there! kiss
correction good men were made there not now:-P
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by lyricalz: 7:39pm On May 06, 2015
CountDracula:
Dey cud have dropped from heaven and I still won't care

I know this must b a tribalistic yoruba man speaking, quote me if am wrong.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by CountDracula(m): 7:40pm On May 06, 2015
lyricalz:


I know this must b a tribalistic yoruba man speaking, quote me if am wrong.
U cudnt b more wrong

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by frankflix: 7:57pm On May 06, 2015
[quote author=TheSonOfMark post=33480316]
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Same with the Ibibios. We call them 'Mpopo'smiley
its spelled mbopo dear
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by glin(f): 8:22pm On May 06, 2015
baybeeboi:

but that wasn't practiced only by Efiks nau.
let's say you just added one.
I don't know of any other tribe that practice such except d calaberians because most of my friends r from there.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by UnknownT: 8:25pm On May 06, 2015
soonest:

Mmong 'not sure of the spelling' means water in Efik/Ibibio. Igbos refer them as Mmong people
cool. Thanks
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by glin(f): 8:31pm On May 06, 2015
GoldStandard:
Get your facts right ma'am.
Efiks even the illiterates in the village dont do that.
Coming from a Calabarian...
U must be born and brought up outside d state. I am not from cross rivers but I hv lots of friends there. I heard from d horses mouth that she was circumcised.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 8:32pm On May 06, 2015
glin:

I don't know of any other tribe that practice such except d calaberians because most of my friends r from there.
and am sure your friends are not circumcised.
Ask them to stop telling you things like that,they don't happen anymore.
Btw,which girl will accede to that?
Igbos did practice it as well,they called it

isa aru or iwu aru
while Urhobos as well practiced and called it
"Opha"

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nickymezor(f): 9:10pm On May 06, 2015
I see OP...
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by samuelson06(m): 9:12pm On May 06, 2015
UnknownT:
EKPO MMOGHU. What does that MMOGHU mean? I know it's used to refer to Akwa/cross persons.

Mbökö is just a kind of chant. It doesn't mean anything serious. It's like saying Igbo kwenu. Just that.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by herald9: 9:35pm On May 06, 2015
TheSonOfMark:


It actually should be spelt as 'Efuk' going by the pronunciations.

The distinguishing markers between Efik and Ibibio are diminishing daily and significantly over the years. What we speak now is what I call "Efibibio".smiley

Efik will soon go extinct...I've lived in Calabar and other parts of Cross River for quite some time now...the percentage of efik speakers are negligible...the Ibibios are really taking over smiley
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 9:44pm On May 06, 2015
Nickymezor:
I see OP...
okay, so what could you have seen?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by herald9: 9:54pm On May 06, 2015
glin:
Op u forgot to add that they circumcise their female children.
Which is too bad!
for where bros
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Phens(m): 10:04pm On May 06, 2015
braintext:
I'm Annang
[color=#000099] am from onna
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nobody: 10:05pm On May 06, 2015
some Research baffles me. The Ibibios and Annangs that have similar Language with Efiks where are they from?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by braintext(m): 10:30pm On May 06, 2015
Phens:
[color=#000099] am from onna


I'm from Obot Akara
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by macof(m): 10:51pm On May 06, 2015
Beautiful people. If I wasn't Yoruba I would have loved to be Efik
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 11:30pm On May 06, 2015
mmsen:


'Lucy' is 3.2 million years old and the oldest known human.

Homo sapiens are said to be 195,000 years old.

Your Bible is a book of fairy tales not historical fact.
was history documented at 3.2 million years or evidence of fossils from carbondating told u that? Give us the evidence efik people at 8000BC.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 11:46pm On May 06, 2015
leonprince:
was history documented at 3.2 million years or evidence of fossils from carbondating told u that? Give us the evidence efik people at 8000BC.

Carbon dating is used to identify the age of a skeleton or item.

That is how Lucy was dated.

That is how the dinosaurs were dated.

That is how we know that the Bible is wrong when it comes to the age of the earth - life has existed on earth for much longer than 6000 years.

I do not know what they found of the Efiks to suggest that they were around from 8000 BC but there are cave paintings in parts of the world that are 30,000 years old.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 11:49pm On May 06, 2015
Osc:
some Research baffles me. The Ibibios and Annangs that have similar Language with Efiks where are they from?

They're all the same people, just separated by water over time.

No one has been able to explain to me how the Annangs are different from the others. At best it appears to be a dialect, it most certainly is not a different language.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 11:56pm On May 06, 2015
TheSonOfMark:


Ikpa, Ibibio ke afo wed ado idogo Efuk. There are differences in their semantics and pronunciations. smiley

That would suggest that they are different dialects, not languages.

The same is found in Hausa but there is one standardized form, likewise Igbo since the time of Zik.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 11:59pm On May 06, 2015
mmsen:


Carbon dating is used to identify the age of a skeleton or item.

That is how Lucy was dated.

That is how the dinosaurs were dated.

That is how we know that the Bible is wrong when it comes to the age of the earth - life has existed on earth for much longer than 6000 years.

I do not know what they found of the Efiks to suggest that they were around from 8000 BC but there are cave paintings in parts of the world that are 30,000 years old.
no doubt abt that if you read other christain writings which I know u don't, there is something called pre-adamic time. Ma point is u can't just write 8000BC and xpect every reader to take it in, that why I used the bible as reference.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by oleary(m): 12:01am On May 07, 2015
Queenybliss:
indeed "efik EDI mbakara" em proud 2 b a dauta of d soil
ojei bab ima! Oto keep mmong efik ke mmong tutu efik esim ufok onto isimke!
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 12:02am On May 07, 2015
leonprince:
no doubt abt that if you read other christain writings which I know u don't, there is something called pre-adamic time. Ma point is u can't just write 8000BC and xpect every reader to take it in, that why I used the bible as reference.

Which other 'Christian writings'?

The Bible should not be used as a reference point - the date and origins of the Bible is itself not certain.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by oleary(m): 12:07am On May 07, 2015
Queenybliss:



do u spell everything according to their pronunciation.......Jst check d efik dictionary if u c anything lyk efuk cum n tell me I will buy biscuits 4 u
perfect reply
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 12:08am On May 07, 2015
mmsen:


Which other 'Christian writings'?

The Bible should not be used as a reference point - the date and origins of the Bible is itself not certain.
so tell me wat is certain in any book you have read, ma bro we only read people opinions and make references and accept wat we believe in it. And that's wat make u a free thinker.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 12:09am On May 07, 2015
leonprince:
so tell me wat is certain in any book you have read, ma bro we only read people opinions and make references and accept wat we believe in it. And that's wat make u a free thinker.

The stories of the old testament could date as far back as the 10 century BC or the 18th century BC, that is a huge gulf. You cannot have such a broad base date.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 12:16am On May 07, 2015
leonprince:
so tell me wat is certain in any book you have read, ma bro we only read people opinions and make references and accept wat we believe in it. And that's wat make u a free thinker.
the carbon dating we talked abt wat it uses is the availbility of the different isotopies of carbon which carbon-12 and carbon-14 which ma brother is rounded up to the 4th figue.so tell me wat is certain?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 12:21am On May 07, 2015
mmsen:


The stories of the old testament could date as far back as the 10 century BC or the 18th century BC, that is a huge gulf. You cannot have such a broad base date.
the carbon dating we talked abt wat it uses is the availbility of the different isotopies of carbon which carbon-12 and carbon-14 which ma brother is rounded up to the 4th figue.so tell me wat is certain?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 6:21am On May 07, 2015
leonprince:
was history documented at 3.2 million years or evidence of fossils from carbondating told u that? Give us the evidence efik people at 8000BC.


Available evidence indicates that the original
homeland of Ibibio is at Usak Edet (Isangele) in the Cameroon. According to Ford and Jones, the Ibibio settlement of Isangele now forms a small tribe in the Kumba Division of Cameroon. Upon leaving the Cameroon territory, the Ibibio arrived at their present location following two major directions.Probably about 8000 BC one group reached Nigeria by an overland route and settled at Ibom (Arochuku) there they erected the famous shrine now known as the Long Juju of Arochuku. From Ibom some of the Ibibio people spread to Abak, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, and other areas of what is known as the mainland of Cross River State.

https://closingdebateonafrica./2013/02/09/origin-and-early-history-of-the-ibibio-people-of-nigeria/

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